“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“We say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in an obscure and distant future. It does not occur to us that it can have any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”
— Marcel Proust
A pretty jamming Flickr gallery of old Disneyland, including some construction photos, concept art, and attractions they probably never should’ve gotten rid of. (Rockets, anyone?)
dis·so·lu·tion [dis-uh–loo-shuhn]
–noun
- the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- the resulting state.
- the undoing or breaking of a bond, tie, union, partnership, etc.
- the breaking up of an assembly or organization; dismissal; dispersal.
- death; decease.
- a bringing or coming to an end; disintegration; decay; termination.
- legal termination, esp. of business activity, with the final distribution of assets, the fixing of liabilities, etc.
Example: The dissolution of marriage marked a new beginning in his life.
dis·il·lu·sion [dis-i-loo-zhuhn]
–noun
- a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction; disenchantment.
Example: The disillusion of marriage marked a new beginning in his life.
